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  • Scotland Busy with Sectoral Marine Plans After Awarding 30+ GW of Offshore Wind Capacity

    3 August 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind

    After selecting 33 offshore wind projects through the ScotWind and Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas (INTOG) leasing rounds, the Scottish government is now revising its original Sectoral Marine Plan (SMP) for offshore wind as part of its iterative plan review process and working on an SMP for INTOG. The final Sectoral Marine Plans are […]

  • Scotland, Brittany Seal Offshore Wind Pact

    4 August 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    The Scottish Government has signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Brittany, a region in France, relating to the offshore wind industry. With this cooperation agreement, the Government said it aims to strengthen Scotland’s position as a leader in Europe’s offshore renewables industry. The MoU will provide Scottish companies with opportunities to capitalise and […]

  • Navantia and Windar Load Out Their First Batch of Moray West Monopiles

    25 August 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The joint venture between Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has loaded out the first XXL monopiles for the Scottish Moray West offshore wind farm. For the joint venture, which the developer Ocean Winds contracted to deliver 14 out of the total of 60 wind turbine monopiles, these are the first monopiles that were manufactured at […]

  • First Floating OSS Expected by 2030, But There Are Still Some Challenges, Semco Maritime Says

    10 July 2023
    Business development, Environment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, R&D, Technology

    Semco Maritime is expecting the first floating offshore substation to happen by 2030, however, there are still some challenges to overcome before this becomes a reality, according to Jacob Øbo Sørensen, Senior Vice President for Renewables at the Danish company. Semco Maritime, together with ISC Consulting Engineers, Aalborg University, Energy Cluster Denmark, and Inocean, secured […]

  • Flotation Energy Awards Survey Contract for 1.4 GW Cenos Floating Wind Farm

    9 August 2023
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    Flotation Energy has awarded Rovco a contract to carry out a geo-environmental survey at its planned Cenos floating offshore wind farm, 200 kilometres off the northeast coast of Scotland. Located in the Central North Sea, the 1.4 GW floating offshore wind project will cover approximately 333 square kilometres. For the survey, Rovco will deploy its […]

  • Fugro on Salamander Metocean Survey Duty Offshore Scotland

    17 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7, has selected Fugro to conduct a metocean survey for the proposed Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Scheduled to begin in September, the survey will run for approximately twelve months and gather essential meteorological, oceanographic, and environmental data, said Fugro. These insights […]

  • Vessel Traffic Surveys Underway at Scottish Floating Wind Project Site

    11 August 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    NASH Maritime, a UK-based shipping and navigation consultancy, is currently undertaking vessel traffic surveys offshore Scotland to inform the navigation risk assessment the company is preparing for the 1 GW Buchan floating offshore wind project. The project site, for which the Floating Energy Allyance consortium secured the rights at the beginning of last year through the ScotWind […]

  • DORIS Leads Design Work on Two Floating Wind Projects Offshore Scotland

    3 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind

    BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership have appointed DORIS as Principal Designer on its Broadshore and Bellrock floating offshore wind farms in Scotland. As Principal Designer, DORIS will use its knowledge of Construction, Design, and Management (CDM) 2015 regulations plan to plan, manage, monitor, and coordinate design risk management activities, support contractor selection and appointments, and […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Selects Global Wind Projects for Neart na Gaoithe Pre-Assembly Work

    16 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Global Wind Projects has been awarded a contract by Siemens Gamesa for the pre-assembly of 54 wind turbine towers for the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, being developed by EDF Renewables and ESB off the coast of Scotland. Global Wind Projects said that this is the company’s first standalone offshore wind […]

  • Third Jacket Installation Campaign to Begin at Neart na Gaoithe

    9 August 2023

    The third phase of the installation of wind turbine jacket foundations at the Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland is scheduled to start on or around 11 August, with the heavy lift vessel Thialf set to install eleven jackets within this campaign. The jackets will be brought directly to the site from the […]

  • Equinor Inks Owner’s Engineering Agreement with DORIS

    14 June 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    France-based DORIS has been awarded a Master Services Framework Agreement by Equinor to provide the Norwegian company with Owner’s Engineering services. Under the five-year agreement, DORIS will deliver services to Equinor for its offshore wind and low-carbon projects across three main areas: the provision of personnel through secondments; the completion of studies, reviews, and verifications, […]

  • eDNA Pilot Study Completed at World’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    30 May 2023
    Environment, R&D

    Equinor and Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) have completed a pilot study using environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor the biodiversity and abundance of marine life in waters around the 30 MW Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm. The pilot study took place in August 2021, at Equinor’s Hywind Scotland offshore wind farm, located 25 kilometres east […]

  • Ofgem Shortlists Four Bidders for GBP 2 Billion Offshore Wind Transmission Assets

    28 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Ofgem has shortlisted four potential bidders for its next Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) bidding round for three offshore transmission links worth an estimated GBP 2 billion (about EUR 2.3 billion). In the “most valuable” OFTO tender round ever run by Ofgem, a new bidder has joined three others in a competition to own and operate […]

  • 1.5 GW Offshore Wind Farm in Sweden Receives Natura 2000 Permit

    16 August 2023
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    OX2 has been granted a Natura 2000 permit for the 1.5 GW Triton offshore wind farm located within the Swedish economic zone off the coast of Skåne. The Swedish developer applied for a Natura 2000 permit for the Triton offshore wind farm in December 2021. In June the County Administrative Board finalized its handling by […]

  • First Turbine Up at Scotland’s Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm

    21 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the 54 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines which will make up the Scottish 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm is now installed, the joint venture between EDF Renewables and ESB said on 21 July. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s vessel Blue Tern loaded components of four turbines at the project’s marshalling […]

  • Crown Estate Supports Four Nature-Positive Offshore Wind Research Projects

    3 August 2023
    Business development, Environment, Research & Development

    The Crown Estate has revealed that it is partnering with a range of UK-wide expert bodies to launch four research projects to support nature recovery and the coexistence of offshore wind farms with marine life. The projects aim to fill critical evidence gaps around how seabirds interact with offshore windfarms and how strategic compensation measures […]

  • Geotechnical Surveys Kick Off at 2 GW Wind Farm Site Offshore Scotland

    27 July 2023
    Business development, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, has started geotechnical surveys at the Caledonia offshore wind farm site in Scotland. Sediment from deep borehole samples from across the Moray Firth site should provide geotechnical data to allow further planning of the project’s engineering design and installation phases. “Ocean Winds has built a […]

  • Danske Commodities Books Hywind Scotland Power

    19 June 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danish energy trading company Danske Commodities has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the world’s first floating wind farm, Hywind Scotland. As the sole offtaker, Danske Commodities will take over balancing and trading of Hywind Scotland’s total volume of 30MW. Hywind Scotland is owned by Equinor (75%) and Masdar (25%). The wind farm, […]

  • Octopus Energy to Pour Billions in Offshore Wind Globally by 2030

    24 July 2023
    Business & Finance

    UK green energy supplier Octopus Energy Group has announced that it will invest, through its generation arm, USD 20 billion (about GBP 15 billion) into offshore wind by 2030. The company said that this will go towards the generation of 12 GW of renewable electricity a year, enough to power 10 million homes. Octopus is targeting projects […]

  • Ørsted Divests Remaining Stake in London Array for EUR 829 Million

    24 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has signed an agreement with funds managed by Schroders Greencoat to divest its remaining 25 per cent minority interest in the London Array offshore wind farm in the UK. The total value of the transaction is GBP 717 million (approximately EUR 829 million). Ørsted originally owned 50 per cent of the project and divested […]

  • World’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm Celebrates Five Years of Operation

    29 December 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Hywind Scotland, the first floating offshore wind farm in the world, has passed five years in operation since its commissioning in 2017. According to Equinor, Hywind Scotland is the world’s best-performing offshore wind farm, achieving a capacity factor of 54 per cent over its five years of operations. “Importantly, Hywind Scotland has run to high […]

  • Top News of the Week, 26 June – 1 July 2017

    2 July 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 26 June to 1 July 2017.

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Best Performer in UK

    23 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, has reached the highest average capacity factor for any wind farm in the UK for its third consecutive year. With an average capacity factor of 57.1% in the twelve months to March 2020, Hywind Scotland set a new record in the UK. During its first two […]

  • Works on Hywind Scotland Foundations in Full Swing

    24 November 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Navantia started welding together the first blocks for the first Hywind Scotland floating foundation at the assembly area of its Fene yard in Spain.  Each of the five spar-type floating foundations will be made of five blocks, and Navantia currently has around 15 blocks in different fabrication stage, with the first spar scheduled to be ready in March 2017. The […]

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Outdelivers

    15 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 30MW Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, performed better than expected in its first three full months in production, Statoil, the operator of the wind farm said.

  • First Hywind Scotland Foundation Put Together (Photos)

    17 January 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Navantia-Windar today assembled the first foundation for the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm, with the construction of the remaining four well underway, the Spanish joint venture company informed.